No good deed goes unpunished.

Assuming you didn't get paid and didn't recommend this contractor, you shouldn't stress out over it.  It's not your fault.  Did you do the documents?

The cheapest price never is.

Somebody once said that the bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of cheap price has been forgotten.

The Art of architecture.

I think it's funny, one week we have an article beating up this kind of representation, and the next week a defense.

Garbage. Look at that empty space! It's so dreadful no one wants to be around it.

Yeah, who the hell wants a building that looks like a bunch of sails?

Brad, of course. Without having to look.

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Woke

"The phenomenon of being woke is a cultural push to challenge problematic norms, systemic injustices and the overall status quo through complete awareness. Being woke refers to a person being aware of the theoretical ins and outs of the world they inhabit."

Yeah, that work, ain't woke. 

Unless "I can't afford photoshop AND maxwell" is an injustice...

my bad! i'm hoping for elmers and actor knives. forget flash.

If people could read my mind, I would have no friends.

Maybe digital intermediaries that can appropriately sensor then?

The reek of entitlement. Sad thing is that guy is an amateur compared to what goes on in my 'hood.

can't fault him for not liking the design, or for not really knowing how to fix it. Always amazing to me that so many people want to cheap out on such a significant project.

I wonder what flight training costs in relation to the architect's fee?

WikiRicki sez "don't overthink it", LOL

That particular style of house has become so commoditized that it has lost all meaning.

Chris, surely you can get your oldest daughter trained up!

smart girl

It's about paint colour, fabric patterns, and cubicle placement Ricki.

Oh I know Rick. Thanks though.

Maybe he sucks at it too. Last time I went out of town for a few days I came home to my dining room painted LILAC. Ha ha ha.

I believed that once too, Rick. Then I worked with a few IDs who wanted to "transition to architecture". They got as far as heads of ID Departments and stopped there. I guess fucking up good designs right before CDs is a lofty enough goal without all that pesky lernin' and those damned exams. Let someone else give a shit about how to keep the water out and how to accommodate the disabled. I've got rugs to specify. Did I say specify? I meant paste a picture of in an InDesign file.

where's that mansplainin' thread?

Thanks for susplaining that, Rick.

Interior Design is a great field. Architecture is a great field. With good communication, a project can make great use of both. But when the architect deigns interiors unimportant until late DD, or when an interior designer decides that the decided-upon scope isn't sufficient and starts changing the scope that was under the purview of the architect, shit goes sideways.

Its as though you can watch Ricki going off the deep end.  He comes back, after some sort of hiatus and his post are quick and to the point.  Since then, they have gotten more and more verbose.  Soon, the dumpster fires will be raging again.

Soon?

In a relative sense... We are in the early stages of the initial rebuke by the community. Replies are starting to turn against him in a mild way. These will increase. Next someone will say "stop picking on Ricki." This will ease the pushback from the OPs briefly and increase his boldness in opinion and word count.

whoooosh

I've got no desire to contribute to the dumpster fire this time around. But hey, it's Friday and a long weekend soon.

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proto, there was a bug about that action and discussion of how to resolve it a couple of pages back in TC, I think?

thx, donna...that helped me...just needed to hit the follow/unfollow toggle at the top of the thread

And it started again

You reminded me... the lilac color that he painted the dining room was pulled from some dishes that his mom gave us that he remembered from childhood. Makes it even funnier. The dishes are lilac, brown, and orange. Yeah, he isn't allowed to design. Even though he is a good artist! nobody's perfect.

In my experience it all balances out. The better someone is at one thing the worse they are at something else.

hmmm, sounds a little self-serving...does it really matter who else has been asked to talk? maybe just reply in a way that confirms his request regarding white males without names?

Yes, it matters when panels are solely made up of white males, as the majority of them have been for the last 500 years. And the only way that change can happen is people - white male and not - saying "I will only serve on panels that include diversity."

Not saying it doesn't matter big picture at all, just that it may be a PC way for him to get the info. Whoever he is probably shouldn't be basing the invitation on who else is gonna be there...maybe it's sincere, tho. I'll admit to being a cynic

congrats!

So are you keeping the intern title?

Huge kudos!

tintt, no. The plan was always to switch over to Everyday Architect when I got licensed. I could keep it, but I think it would just get too confusing. I will miss calling out architects on the forum behind the title of an intern, but maybe as Everyday Architect they'll think for a whole second before they dismiss my viewpoint. I still plan posting to the blog occasionally, so that won't change, it will just be under a different screen name. Over the time the focus might drift from internship issues, but I'm not giving up on it just because I've earned a different title.

You'll always be everyday intern to me.

Good to know I've made a lasting impression Miles.

Everyday Intern Architect...

EIA...

Evolution In Action.

their website says they've been featured on archinect.net, which does not redirect to archinect.com (at least not for me)

There are people still taking all 4.0. I'm also guessing (haven't been paying too much attention since I did all 4.0) that many questions will be applicable to 5.0 test prep as well.

What you've described is "work". The fun stuff isn't.

I've been coming in at 6 am to get stuff done, no distractions for 2 hours

RIP Life balance.

actually works out great, I'm out the door at 4:30 every day. I've learned that there are often an "architecture emergencies" around 4:50, which I don't mind missing out on

I simply cannot believe that any effect of Trump's actions are intentional.

If it tastes the same? Probably. I could get over the thought of it being produced in a lab relatively quickly.

Depends how it's cooked. If you can cook it rare... medium rare at worst, I'll have at it! Even if it's cat.

I will eat lab meat as soon as it's available. I'm just curious how others feel about it.

We eat jello and other crap manufactured, meat wouldn't be any different imo. It'll be like quorn.

Do your watch movies that don't have Brad Pitt?

Yes, Miles. Lots of non-Pitt movies. Such as Idiocracy and Dr. Strangelove!

Sellers was great. Love 'Being There'. Strangelove, too.

And they couldn't claim it on the internet if it wasn't true.

Yeah, but I gave it to Bulgar.

That's a herpes job. Who ever gets it is never getting rid of it.

Didn't even know you were expecting tintt! Congratulations!

Congrats tintt!!! Happy to hear all is well. Hope you're able to get some rest too. BTW, I did the same thing (critique the hospital design) when we had ours earlier this year.

Congratulations Tintt!! Did you tour all the ones in the area? They specialize and actually market :P Some are pretty high end, other's look like converted 50's bomb shelters.

Mighty... picked the hospital based on factors other than the facility itself. It isn't either high end nor resembling of a bygone era. I do have a view out the window of another part of campus (the emergency room drop off) that is nearing the end of a renovation that is poorly designed though and it makes me frustrated to see the dysfunction. That probably gives it away.

Yes, congrats. But, critiquing the architecture while giving birth is a sign of advanced architectural dementia. LOL. I knew I was losing it when I found myself sitting in some building drawing the wall sections in my mind.

I was diagnosed with architectural distrustia and spatial functioning over-analysistitis in second grade. It probably started by visiting a hospital in the first place. The condition has only worsened with time and knowledge!

The worry now is that you may have passed it on to the next generation

Geezer, there is only concern for those traits being inherited is if the ICFTS gene is also passed along (aka I can fix this shit gene). Fingers crossed. ;)

Socially dominant sex.

Oedipus laughs.

Mental image: tintt in the delivery room, checking A'nect and firing off snippets of wisdom between contractions .

Isn't it regressive to be assigning a gender? Very patriarchal. (Mockery of culture aside... congratulations and best wishes!)

Gender is assigned?